Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-29 Thread Brett Harris
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:25:57 -0500 (EST) Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Brett Harris wrote: > > The best way that I've found to back my machine's configs up, is to > >create a directory such as /etc/config , *move* all my important > >configuration files to it (

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Brett Harris wrote: > The best way that I've found to back my machine's configs up, is to >create a directory such as /etc/config , *move* all my important >configuration files to it (firewall, syslogd, rc.conf etc - >basically anything i'd want to keep for a new machine), >and

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-27 Thread Brett Harris
Hi, The best way that I've found to back my machine's configs up, is to create a directory such as /etc/config , *move* all my important configuration files to it (firewall, syslogd, rc.conf etc - basically anything i'd want to keep for a new machine), and then symlink them to their proper loc

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-27 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote: > gzip is more universally known that bzip2, so using it means that you > are more likely to be able to recover your data in an emergency, such > as on a non-BSD system. I have several FreeBSD machines that I administer in a couple of locations so I just

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-27 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 4:18 PM -0500 1/27/03, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote: before I do a major upgrade. I then shove the backup offsite via ftp. I have not been sending the files out, but working on that. First will encryp the files with gpg (GNU privacy) and then will use scp

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-27 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote: > before I do a major upgrade. I then shove the backup offsite via ftp. I have not been sending the files out, but working on that. First will encryp the files with gpg (GNU privacy) and then will use scp to send the files out. I don't have FTP enabled on

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-27 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 8:16 PM -0500 1/26/03, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: It's a bad idea to exclude fstab. Why? At one point I had it included and it actually clobered a working one and just caused much more headaches. You should still back it up; you just need to be more car

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-27 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > Other files won't create as much headaches as fstab if copied over by > > > mistake. > > > > Oh yeah? What about rc.conf? Your firewall config, if any? password? > > Seems like they

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-27 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Other files won't create as much headaches as fstab if copied over by > > mistake. > > Oh yeah? What about rc.conf? Your firewall config, if any? password? > Seems like they *all* create nasty headaches if copied over by > mistake. The solution to that pr

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-27 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: > > It's a bad idea to exclude fstab. > Why? At one point I had it included and it actually clobered a working one > and just caused much more headaches. Because fstab tells you which disks

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-26 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: > It's a bad idea to exclude fstab. Why? At one point I had it included and it actually clobered a working one and just caused much more headaches. I am not planning on doing a full backup/restore so if the machine totally dies I can just get back up from it

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > What files or directories shoud I ignore when doing a tar backup? > > So far my include list is: > /etc > /usr/home > /usr/local/etc > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > /var/log > /root > /.profile > /.cshrc > > And my exclude list is >

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-26 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-26 18:08:40 -0500: > What files or directories shoud I ignore when doing a tar backup? files you have customized in any way. it depends on what software you run. there's no definitive answer. > And my exclude list is > /root/.netscape/cache man, you run

Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-26 Thread Francisco Reyes
What files or directories shoud I ignore when doing a tar backup? So far my include list is: /etc /usr/home /usr/local/etc /usr/src/sys/i386/conf /var/log /root /.profile /.cshrc And my exclude list is /root/.netscape/cache /etc/fstab /etc/mtree /etc/isdn /etc/uucp /usr/local/etc/codepages/ Pla